Tourist Hut Can Stay

DIGEST

December 16, 1994|Staff Report

HOLLYWOOD — A castle-shaped tourist information center can stay at the beach.

The center, operating near Johnson Street since January 1993, is run by Pierre Couture of Atlantic Tours at no cost to the city. It distributes literature and books vacations, but its lease ran out last month.

The trailer was designed as a temporary structure, said City Manager Sam Finz, who recommended the City Commission remove it.

But after lobbying by Couture and other tourism merchants, the commission decided earlier this month it could stay.

"There has to be a tourism presence on Hollywood beach," said Hollywood Chamber of Commerce head Nicki Grossman.